I will contact them to listen their opinions and try to figure out the bigger picture.
Best, KK On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > James, Qiang, > > On 5 April 2014 at 23:33, Qiang Kou wrote: > | Hi, I think we can try to start this in the summer, since I am also a > little > | busy as a student. > | > | I my opinion, we can follow the structure of RcppArmadillo and start > from 'as' > | and 'wrap' functions for matrix structure in mlpack. > > There is definitely general interest in doing that. And as mentioned > earlier > in this thread, there has been previous talk between Ryan (MLPACK), Conrad > (Arma) and myself. It would probably be best to somehow involve Ryan and > his > group as they have thoughts (and have considered Swig and other tools). It > would need some thought, and someone with time and knowledge of both > projects > to be involved. > > That said, you can of course also start with simple as<>() and wrap() > converters just to get going. Nothing wrong with some explorations and > examples while figuring out the bigger picture. > > Cheers, Dirk > > | > | Best, > | > | KK > | > | > | On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:10 PM, James Li <jamesy...@gmail.com> wrote: > | > | Hello Damian and other Rcpp Devs, > | > | I am extremely interested in putting in (non-trivial) time into > something > | like this - but I am not sure I am expert enough to head such a > project. > | > | My question to you is: have you or anyone else started a project > like this > | that I can contribute to? And if not, could someone point me the > right way > | to get started? > | > | Thanks! > | > | Best, > | James > | > | > | On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> > wrote: > | > | > | Damian, > | > | On 20 January 2014 at 20:12, Damian Lyons wrote: > | | Dear Rcpp developers, > | | > | | Firstly, many thanks for your work on Rcpp. It has saved me > | countless hours > | | (or is that months?) of simulation time. > | | > | | I'm a big fan of RcppArmadillo and Armadillo. Recently I came > | across MLPACK, > | | which is a large and useful C++ machine learning library that > uses > | Armadillo: > | | http://mlpack.org > | > | Sure. I am in somewhat regular contact with Ryan Curtin, its lead > | developer, > | because of our joint interactions with Conrad and his priceless > | Armadillo > | library. But Ryan is a grad student, and we while we have talked > | about R > | binding (meaning the real thing and not just some SWIG > interfaces), he > | is not > | exactly overflowing with free time. Neither am I. > | > | | If you have the time to do so, I humbly request for an official > | RcppMLPACK > | | package. I believe other people will also find it useful. I'm > | currently > | | copying and pasting code out of MLPACK into my own package, > but this > | is not the > | | most friendly solution. > | > | This makes YOU the perfect candidate to start a project NOW as > YOU need > | IT. > | And YOU have already worked with both pieces. > | > | None of our projects became what they are overnight. You have to > start > | somewhere. Do it right, do it in the open, and if you do that > and > | have some > | luck maybe others will join and help. > | > | Dirk > | > | -- > | Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > | _______________________________________________ > | Rcpp-devel mailing list > | Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > | > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > | > | > | > | > | -- > | James Li | Ph.D. Candidate | http://jamesyili.com/ > | Dept. of Statistical Science | Cornell University > | > | _______________________________________________ > | Rcpp-devel mailing list > | Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > | > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel > | > | > | > | > | -- > | Qiang Kou > | q...@umail.iu.edu > | School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University > | > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > -- Qiang Kou q...@umail.iu.edu School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
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